John Considine

Considine, John 2023 Review of Householder, Saporta & Adams (2022): Problems in Lexicography Historiographia Linguistica 50:1, pp. 134–143 | Review

Considine, John 2017 “Si hoc saeculo natus fuisset”: Refurbishing the Catholicon for the 16th century Latin Grammars in Transition, 1200 - 1600, Luhtala, Anneli and Mark E. Amsler (eds.), pp. 412–429 | Article

The lexicographical part of the Catholicon of Giovanni Balbi of Genoa (d.1286), compiled in 1286, was the dominant Latin dictionary of the 15th century and the first major Latin dictionary to be printed: 24 editions recorded from the 1460s to 1500, another 7 from 1501 to 1520. In the twenty-five… read more

Considine, John 2016 The history of the concept of lexicography History of Linguistics 2014: Selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), Vila Real, Portugal, 25–29 August 2014, Assunção, Carlos, Gonçalo Fernandes and Rolf Kemmler (eds.), pp. 31–42 | Article

A problem for historians of pre-modern lexicography is that “lexicography” and indeed “dictionary” were not clearly defined categories for pre-modern scholars. This paper discusses the dictionary-like texts of medieval Latin Christendom; examines the emergence of “dictionary” as an actor’s category… read more

Considine, John 2013 Jamieson’s Dictionary of Scots: The story of the first historical dictionary of the Scots language. By Susan Rennie: The story of the first historical dictionary of the Scots language Historiographia Linguistica 40:3, pp. 507–511 | Review

Considine, John 2012 Grosse Lexika und Wörterbücher Europas: Europäische Enzyklopädien und Wörterbücher in historischen Porträts. Edited by Ulrike Haß Historiographia Linguistica 39:2/3, pp. 413–418 | Review

Considine, John 2011 John Lane’s Verball: A lost Elizabethan dictionary project Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 41–54 | Article

In the liminary materials to an anonymously published narrative poem, The First Booke of the Preservation of King Henry the vij (1599–1600), the author announced a dictionary project, promising – four years before the publication of Cawdrey’s Table Alphabeticall – that he would “set forth a… read more

Considine, John 2011 A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries. By Julie Coleman Historiographia Linguistica 38:3, pp. 389–395 | Review

Considine, John 2011 Leibniz as lexicographer? History of Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the eleventh International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XI), 28 August - 2 September 2008, Potsdam, Haßler, Gerda (ed.), pp. 217–224 | Article

The interests of Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646–1716) in language have been studied in a classic monograph, Leibniz als Sprachforscher by Sigrid von der Schulenburg (1885–1943), and in a number of subsequent works (see Dutz 1983, and for some later material, Müller & Heinekamp 1996:26–29).… read more

Considine, John 2010 Towards a History of Chinese Lexicography Historiographia Linguistica 37:1/2, pp. 133–143 | Review article

Considine, John 2009 Iustus Lipsius, De recta pronuntiatione latinae linguae dialogus / Juste Lipse, Dialogue sur la prononciation correcte du Latin Historiographia Linguistica 36:1, pp. 117–122 | Review

Considine, John 2009 “Les voyelles ne font rien, et les consonnes fort peu de chose”: On the history of Voltaire’s supposed comment on etymology Historiographia Linguistica 36:1, pp. 181–189 | Miscellaneous

Considine, John 2008 Did Andreas Jäger or Georg Caspar Kirchmaier write the dissertation De lingua vetustissima Europae (1686)? Historiographia Linguistica 35:1/2, pp. 13–22 | Article

This paper attempts to establish the authorship of a milestone in the development of the concept of the Indo-European language family, the dissertation De lingua vetustissima Europae (Wittenberg, 1686). Since the work of G. J. Metcalf in 1966 and 1974, this dissertation has been ascribed to… read more

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